【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 giving you only part of whatamp。39。s already yours? you havenamp。39。t even made progress, if whatamp。39。s being given to you, you should have had already. thatamp。39。s not progress. and i love my brother lomax, the way he pointed out weamp。39。re right back where we were in 1954. weamp。39。re not even as far up as we were in 1954. weamp。39。re behind where we were in 1954. thereamp。39。s more segregation now than there was in 1954. thereamp。39。s more racial animosity, more racial hatred, more racial violence today in 1964, than there was in 1954. where is the progress?
　　and now youamp。39。re facing a situation where the young negroamp。39。s ing up. they donamp。39。t want to hear that amp。quot。turn theothercheekamp。quot。 stuff, no. in jacksonville, those were teenagers, they were throwing molotov cocktails. negroes have never done that before. but it shows you thereamp。39。s a new deal ing in. thereamp。39。s new thinking ing in. thereamp。39。s new strategy ing in. itamp。39。ll be molotov cocktails this month, hand grenades next month, and something else next month. itamp。39。ll be ballots, or itamp。39。ll be bullets. itamp。39。ll be liberty, or it will be death. the only difference about this kind of death itamp。39。ll be reciprocal. you know what is meant by amp。quot。reciprocalamp。quot。? thatamp。39。s one of brother lomaxamp。39。s words. i stole it from him. i donamp。39。t usually deal with those big words because i donamp。39。t usually deal with big people. i deal with small people. i find you can get a whole lot of small people and whip hell out of a whole lot of big people. they havenamp。39。t got anything to lose, and theyamp。39。ve got every thing to gain. and theyamp。39。ll let you know in a minute: amp。quot。it takes two to tango。 when i go, you go.amp。quot。
　　the black nationalists, those whose philosophy is black nationalism, in bringing about this new interpretation of the entire meaning of civil rights, look upon it as meaning, as brother lomax has pointed out, equality of opportunity. well, weamp。39。re justified in seeking civil rights, if it means equality of opportunity, because all weamp。39。re doing there is trying to collect for our investment. our mothers and fathers invested sweat and blood. three hundred and ten years we worked in this country without a dime in return i mean without a dime in return. you let the white man walk around here talking about how rich this country is, but you never stop to think how it got rich so quick. it got rich because you made it rich.
　　you take the people who are in this audience right now. theyamp。39。re poor. weamp。39。re all poor as individuals. our weekly salary individually amounts to hardly anything. but if you take the salary of everyone in here collectively, itamp。39。ll fill up a whole lot of baskets. itamp。39。s a lot of wealth. if you can collect the wages of just these people right here for a year, youamp。39。ll be rich richer than rich. when you look at it like that, think how rich uncle sam had to bee, not with this handful, but millions of black people. your and my mother and father, who didnamp。39。t work an eighthour shift, but worked from amp。quot。canamp。39。t seeamp。quot。 in the morning until amp